Word: magyarovar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only were Hungarians forbidden to demonstrate; they were forbidden to mourn. They were warned not to wear arm bands or to display candles in their windows. Secret police even knocked on the doors of birthday parties. Heavy chains were hung across the gate of the Magyarovar grave site of fallen Freedom Fighters. All Budapest dared to do was to boycott all cafés, cinemas and places of entertainment...
...heard broadcasting military orders, indicating that a sizable part of the Hungarian army had gone over to the rebels. Miskolc (pop. 136,000), near the Czech border, Hungary's second most important industrial center, fell to the rebels at week's end. At the village of Magyarovar, 15 miles from the Austrian border, security police shot 75 people, wounded 200 others, when local farmers showed resistance. The village was relieved by rebel forces led by a rebel commander who described himself as "the colonel." The rebel commander told foreign correspondents that "national councils" were in control of large...
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